Yep. Hot spotting is cool nowThanks YouTube!
Yep!!Thanks YouTube!
Absolutely. Just try to lease some land to hunt within a 90 minute drive of Memphis. You better be damn lucky or ready to pay big money. And if it has a large population of turkeys you can forget it. If you do get lucky and find a reasonably priced place someone will find out and lease it out from under you. Meanwhile public land is more crowded than ever. We don't need more hunters. Or fishermen for that matter.Can we at least agree that we don't need anymore hunters now?
Agreed Mega! The amount of non resident turkey hunters on public land in middle Tn was insane this season.Eye opening to see a doubling, but honestly I figured there would have been even more.
There just aren't enough turkeys nationwide for the current trend to continue.
It's not stupid nor is it selfish…well unless you literally mean you as the only hunter. That would be epic but kinda boring too and expensive.Selfishly, I wish everyone would quit hunting and fishing but me. But I understand that is stupid and not the right way to be. So I am good with that.
I used to think we needed more hunters. I do not think that now, especially with turkeys.
But being an American, I cannot deny or what not any ones willingness or desire to hunt.
I'd be good with hunting over crowded and sharing woods if everyone was like me. But most of these new recruits are not the type of folks I want to share the woods with
Owning land gives one control over one piece of the puzzle: access and other hunters (excluding trespassers). It does not guarantee the game will be there next year, which I have experienced firsthand. Have the land, have the habitat, just do not have the turkeys to hunt/kill.If you dont own the land you hunt, you are day to day.
And, that "piece of the puzzle" can be a really small piece.Owning land gives one control over one piece of the puzzle: access and other hunters (excluding trespassers). It does not guarantee the game will be there next year, which I have experienced firsthand. Have the land, have the habitat, just do not have the turkeys to hunt/kill.